This list of Guantánamo prisoners has the known identities of prisoners at the

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, but is compiled from various sources and is incomplete. In official documents, the

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(DoD) continues to make intermittent efforts to

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prisoner's names. they had not published an official list of detainees. On April 19, 2006, the DoD released a list with 558 names in what appears to be a

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or other scanned image.'List of detainees who went through complete CSRT process' (PDF, scanned)
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'' April 19, 2006. The

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published the list in more accessible text form.'Official Pentagon List of Detainees /page not found Nov 2018' (Text version of DoD list)
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'' April 19, 2006. ''

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'' maintains a list of the prisoners known or suspected to have been held in Guantánamo Bay.List of Guantánamo detainee names
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'' On March 3, 2006 the DoD partially complied with a

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to release the names of the remaining Guantánamo detainees. The court order required the DoD to release the names of all the detainees.US to release partial list of Guantánamo detainees
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'', March 3, 2006 Initially, the DoD released only 317 names. On April 19, 2006, the DoD released a list with 558 names. Although Judge Jed Rakoff had already dismissed this argument, Pentagon spokesmen Bryan Whitman justified withholding the names out of a concern for the detainees' privacy. On April 20, 2006, the DoD released a

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file that listed 558 names. The 558 individuals on the list were those whose detention had been reviewed by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT). The list gave the detainee's ID number, their name, and their home country. The names of several hundred prisoners who had been released prior to the commencement of the CSRTs were not released. The list did not specify whether the prisoners were still in detention at Guantanamo; whether they had been determined to be "enemy combatants"; whether they were released, or repatriated to the custody of their home countries. On May 15, 2006, the DOD released what they called a complete list of all 759 former and current inmates who had been held in military custody in the detainment camps after a

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(FOIA) action was filed by the

.Archive of Official list of all Guantanamo prisoners
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'', May 15, 2006US names 759 Guantanamo inmates
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'', May 16, 2006. On June 17, 2013, the ''

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'' published a list, obtained using the

, of 48 prisoners who were designated for indefinite detainment. On May 31, 2014, the

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was reported to have swapped 5 prisoners (Abdul Haq Wasiq, Mullah Norullah Nori, Khairullah Khairkhwa, Mohammed Nabi and Mohammed Fazi) in return for Sergeant

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who was captured after deserting his post. On January 16, 2017, the Federal government of the United States announced that ten more prisoners were released to Oman, leaving about 45 detainees. Of all prisoners at Guantanamo, Afghans were the largest group (29 percent), followed by Saudi Arabians (17 percent), Yemenis (15 percent), Pakistanis (9 percent), and Algerians (3 percent).

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and the

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are the most represented in

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, with 16 and 12 prisoners respectively. Overall, 50 nationalities were present at Guantanamo.

List

Roughly 780 detainees have been brought to Guantanamo. Although most of these have been released without charge, the United States government continues to classify many of these released detainees as "enemy combatants". By January 19, 2017, at the end of the Obama Administration, the detention center remained open with 41 detainees remaining. As of May 2025, 15 detainees are still held at Guantanamo. CSRT is

Combatant Status Review Tribunals The Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT) were a set of tribunals for confirming whether detainees held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had been correctly designated as "enemy combatants". The CSRTs were establish ...

. Individuals with "SAMWL" are listed on the

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, released in February 2009. Details about seven deaths reported as suicides and reports of attempted suicides are at

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References

External links

Guantánamo: The Definitive Prisoner List (Part 1)
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Names of the Detained in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
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See also

Guantanamo detainees by nationality

References

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